The Wild Duck: Journal 2

The Theme of Blindness is demonstrated both in Ibsen's The Wild Duck as well as Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Oedipus had murdered his father as well as slept with and married his own mother un-knowingly. Before understanding the prophesy he was happy or atleast content with the life he was living. However when he discovered the truth about the life he thought he had been living his life began to derail. It was so important to him to understand the truth that he was ruining his life in the process. Simlarly Hedvig, blind herself demonstrates this same thing. Hedvig did not know the severity or understand the element of her blindness and she was sheltered from this thereforenot knowing the true severity of the situation. I believe that this is also demonstrated through the families domestic lifestyle seperate from the real world hidding the truth of the tradgic situations surrounding them.